Why English? : Confronting the Hydra /
Pauline Bunce, Ruanni Tupas, Vaughan Rapatahana, Robert Phillipson.
- 1 online resource
- Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Series Editor’s Foreword / Introduction / Part 1: Hydra at Large -- 1. The English Language in a Global Context: Between Expansion and Resistance / 2. Promoting English: Hydras Old and New / 3. English, Neocolonialism and Forgetting / 4. The English Language as Naga in Indonesia / 5. Offshore Call Centre Work is Breeding a New Colonialism / Part 2: Hydra Mythology -- 6. Confronting Language Myths, Linguicism and Racism in English Language Teaching in Japan / 7. Mr Jones: Mi Laik Askim Yu Samting / 8. Must the (Western) Hydra Be Blond(e)? Performing Cultural ‘Authenticity’ in Intercultural Education / 9. Voluntary Overseas English Language Teaching: A Myopic, Altruistic Hydra / 10. English Language as ‘Fatal Gadget’ in Iceland / 11. The English Hydra as Invader on the Post-Communist ‘New Periphery’ in Bulgaria / 12. The English Alphabet: Alpha-Best or Alpha-Beast? / 13. ‘Languages’ / Part 3: Confronting the Hydra -- 14. Mauritian Kreol Confronts English and French Hydras / 15. ‘Hydra Languages’ and Exclusion versus Local Languages and Community Participation in three African Countries / 16. The Destruction of Nadia’s Dream: The English Language Tyrant in Pakistan’s Education System / 17. The (Illusory) Promise of English in India / Part 4: Resistance and Cohabitation with the Hydra -- 18. A Personal Reflection on Chican@ Language and Identity in the US-Mexico Borderlands: The English-Language Hydra as Past and Present Imperialism / 19. The Struggle to Raise Bilingual Children in the Belly of the English Hydra Beast: The United States of America / 20. TEFL and International Politics: A Personal Narrative / 21. Hungary: A Sham Fightback Against the Domination of English / 22. The English Language as a Trojan Horse within the People’s Republic of China / 23. TEFL as Hydra: Rescuing Brazilian Teacher Educators from ‘Privilege’ / 24. ‘Writing back (to the centre)’ / Afterword: Decentring the Hydra: Towards a more Equitable Linguistic Order / Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove -- Bunce, Pauline / Phillipson, Robert / Rapatahana, Vaughan / Tupas, Ruanni -- Mazrui, Alamin -- Phillipson, Robert -- Tupas, Ruanni -- Coleman, Hywel -- Boussebaa, Mehdi -- Kubota, Ryuko / Okuda, Tomoyo -- Smith, Hilary -- Stanley, Phiona -- Bunce, Pauline -- Kristinsson, Ari Páll -- Templer, Bill -- Bunce, Pauline -- Lai-Ming, Tammy Ho -- Collen, Lindsey -- Heugh, Kathleen / Chiatoh, Blasius Agha-ah -- Mustafa, Zubeida -- Rao, A. Giridhar -- Martinez, Aja Y. -- Demont-Heinrich, Christof -- Edge, Julian -- Kontra, Miklós -- Gao, Mobo / Rapatahana, Vaughan -- Jordão, Clarissa Menezes -- Rapatahana, Vaughan -- Kabel, Ahmed